The state prosecution called upon the appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court to increase the sentence against Ibro Macic. Macic’s defense requested that the court either renew the trial or hand down an acquittal.
Presenting her closing statement at the Ibro Macic trial, prosecutor Sanja Jukic said Macic was guilty of war crimes in the Konjic area and should be sentenced accordingly.
After months spent in custody and years spent on trial, some indictees were however pronounced not guilty of war crimes. They are trying to live a normal life again, but say that the trial took a part of their life and that it cannot be forgotten.
As confirmed by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina to BIRN Justice Report, a second instance verdict has been pronounced against Osman Brkan, acquitting him of charges for crimes in Blace village, near Konjic.
Testifying at the trial for crimes in the Konjic area, the first Defence witness says that indictee Ibro Macic is not the person who punished him by ordering additional hours of keeping guard in Musala.
The presentation of evidence by the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH, against Ibro Macic, who is charged with crimes in the Konjic area, has been completed with testimony by a court expert in graphology and presentation of material evidence.
Presenting its appeal against a verdict of release against Osman Brkan, the Prosecution says that the Trial Chamber was wrong when it decided not to believe a witness, who accused him of participation in the murder of four old women in Blace, near Konjic, on June 13, 1992. The Defence requests the Court to confirm the first instance verdict.